It has been a long and difficult wait, with trials and social service involvement, but on 1 July at Sutton Coldfield New Hall Cemetery, Abiyah was laid to rest.
“It was a small, intimate affair, with members of family on his mom’s side,” she said.
“No one came from his dad’s.”
The service was organised by Birmingham City Council which owned the grave, before transferring its ownership over to Ms Rowe.
But currently, Ms Rowe says there is just a stick in the ground marking young Abiyah’s grave, and she is unable to afford the expense of a headstone for her nephew.
Ms Rowe has launched a GoFundMe page in a bid to raise enough for a gravestone for Abiyah, saying: “I feel like I just want to be able to give him something nice.
“I just want him to have the best send-off.”